David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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We Need A ‘Marshall Plan’ For Public Media
Local news is too important for our democracy to live and die by ad dollars or fundraising. Public funding could help. By Chris Mills Rodrigo | March 6, 2024 The Roosevelt Island Daily News America’s media institutions have had a terrible, horrible,…
MY NEWSPAPER DIED
My newspaper died. More than half of all daily papers in America are in the grip of just 10 syndicates, most of which don’t care about journalism. By Jim Hightower | October 19, 2022 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News…
THE COLLAPSE OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS HELPS HACKS SPREAD LIES
“Critical race theory” panic owes its rise to thousands of fake websites filling the gaps left by real, independent newspapers. By Jim Hightower | October 5, 2022 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News One noisy piece of the GOP’s culture…
READERS DIDN’T GIVE UP ON LOCAL NEWS. CORPORATIONS DID.
Corporations gutted local newspapers and then wondered why people stopped buying them. By Jim Hightower | July 28, 2021/First published in Other Words Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers. He specialized in squeezing out competitors…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor